Culture series
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Also known as: Culture, Culture novels
- se20e05: AI Models; The All Souls Exam; Melvynn Bragg as an Oxford Don; Grounding; Being Human; Worry About The Same Things … and GPT-5 Thinking To write “water” is to trace a braid of physics, ecology, technology, culture, and power. This essay follows that braid. I mean, yuck, (But …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … Banks’ Culture series, where a bunch of machine intelligences display colors/textures to indicate interior states like emotion, or to better/include more dynamic range and metadata (ugh …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … Banks’ Culture series. Anyway. Fashion. You get a hint of this in Picard with a bunch of non-Starfleet combadges, which are essentially what phones are now, but …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … Banks' use of language in his Culture novels. It started pretty dumb, with Terry Matalas, the showrunner for Star Trek: Picard season 2 pointing out that shuttles still …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … Banks' Culture that has been doing the rounds on how the Culture can't be defeated - because it's designed to spread itself. Good co ntra arguments on …
- End of Process … universe where humans still have an important job to do because they're Culture[3] Special Circumstance[4] agents. So. Jeff Bezos writes a letter to shareholders and …
- Battlesuits; Simulations and Puppyslugs; Scratchpad … Similarly in the Culture series, people just do art because they feel like doing art. There's a slight argument, I suppose, that some people live in a …
- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … Banks' culture novels where essentially you have a piece of jewelry that's a network connected node to a stupendously powerful set of computing resources and Minds. One …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … Banks' Culture universe: that sentient beings minds are inviolable, but whatever escapes into the physical universe and off the substrate of pure thought is fair game. Your ideas …
- Rate All The Things … Banks' wonderful post-scarcity Culture, along with Star Trek, and on the other hand we have Elysium, Moon, Total Recall, Robocop, and Fifth Element. Instead of dropping products …